Mold for concrete walls.



PATENTED APR. 9, 1907'.

W. H. ANTHONY. MOLD FOR CONCRETE WALLS.

APPLICATION FILED APBJZ. 1908.

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UNITED STATE S PATENT OFFICE. WILLIAM H. ANTHONY, or ALLENTowN, PENNSYLVANIA. MOLD FOR CONCR ETE WALLS.

No. 860,120. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented April 9. 1907.

Application filed April 12. 1906. Serial No. 811,328.

To all'whom it may concern: I spaces are all filled the whole apparatus is Be it known that I, VILLIAM H. ANTHONY, again raised in position for. more concrete. of Allentown, in the count-"of Lehigh and 7 designatesasoafl'old which consistsof L- State of Pennsylvania, haveinventedcertain shaped supports or hangers and one or more new and useful Improvements in Molds for platforms 8. The vertical portions of the 6.0 Concrete lValls; and I do hereby declare the supports are bent horizontally, so as to be se following to be afull, clear, and exact descri curedto the lower flange of either side plate tion of the invention, such as will enable by pins or bolts 9, and their upper flanged others skilled in the. art to which it appertains. ends are secured to the upper flanged edge of re to make and use the same. i such side late by ins or bolts 10.

The object of this invention is to'pro'vide a The 0 y scafio d necessary is secured to simple and highly efiicient mold for concrete and forms part of the mold and can be atwal s of any shape, size, or thickness. tached to the inside or outside, or both, and is A further object is to avoid the use of scaf-. movable with the mold. folds, as heretofore employed. *In Fig. 4 I have shown a mold for forming 70, The invention will be hereinafter fully set corners of a building, the only difference beforth, and particularly pointed' out in the .ing that the side plates are of right-angular claims. formation' a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is Although I have shown but two screw rods 2o a view in side elevation of a straight mold. mounted on each mold section, yet it is Fig. 2 is an end view thereof, showing a pormanifest that any desired number may be tion of a wall in section with a scaffold sus used or that an other means may be 'einpended at one side. Fig. 3 is a view of the ployed for eflecting the raising of the molds scaflold detached. Fig. 4 is a view in per- Once the latter are raised they will remain in- 25 spective of'a corner-mold. v m position by unreleased screws and by fric- 8o Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the tion. I

mold in'its entirety, which is composed of The advantages of m invention will be two corresponding parallel side plates2, haved in the art.- It will ing upper and lower horizontal flanges 3, o where1nare.fo'rmed coincident holes. These two side plates are connected by rectangular frames or yokes 4. The upper horizontal cordance thercwlth may be readily and easily 8'5 hence not liable to readily et out of order. member of each of these frames is formed The'yokes which contain tl ie screw-rod are with a central threaded opening wherein made separate and independent, as well as the 3 5 works ascrew-rod 5, carrying onlts upper end side lates, which can be of any desired amanipulatinghand-wheel 6. lengt and assembled at the lace of con-' practice the mold may be made of any struction with a few bolts. device emdesired length. I have found that sections bodying my invention may also be used for from two to twelve feet are desirable, the sevconstructing r1dge-piers, grain-elevators,

together. The cement or concrete is intro- In making hollow wall molds are dependduced between the arallel side plates up to i ly secure to cross-pieces between the the top edges thereof ja'nd after itis Sulficientl sides.

' hardened or settled a piece of board or bloc I claim as m invention- 45 is (placed beneath one or more of the screw-- 1. A mold or concrete walls comprising 10o sand the latter turned to effect the raising two corresponding parallel sides, a series of of the mold, the lowerendof thelatteralwa s connecting means rigidl secured to said rem beneath the u per edge of t1'e sides, and screw-rodsworking in each of said complete wall-section. heron on the opconnecti g means and desi ned to engage a 50 erator proceeds to introduce ad 'tional cewall-section, whereby the owerin of said inent or concrete filling up to the top, and screw-rods will raise said sides whi e ermitwhen he gets to a oke he releases the partic-- ting one or more of said screw-r0 to be ular screw thereo andfillsup under the yoke 'raised without altering the position of said and again places his board or block posi sides. I

5 Qiomand reapplies .the screw. After the 2. A mold for concretewalls comprising no .ca able of two corresponding parallel sides,

being secured to either or both si( es of the mold, a series of connecting means rigidly secured to said sides, and screwrods working in each of said connecting means and designed to engage a WiLlirSBGtiOII whereby the lowering of said screw-rods will raise said sides and said scaffold while permitting one or more of said screw-rods to be raised without altering the position of said sides and scaffold.

3. A mold for concrete walls comprising two parallel sides, yokes connecting and rigidly secured to said sides, working in threaded openings in the upper horizontal portions of said yokes for engaging a completed wall-section to effect the a scaffold two parallel sides havmg and screw-rods raising of the mold, tended beyond said yokes and having handwhcels on their outer ends.

4. A mold for concrete walls comprising upper 'and lower apertured flanges, means raising ofthe mold, a scaffold comprising hangers having fianwed portions, and means for securing such anged portions to the flanges of either side of the mold.

In testimonywhereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib' ing witnesses.

' WILLIAM H. ANTHONY. Witnesses:

JOSEPH E. HOFFMAN. HARRY R. SNYDER.

said screw-rods beingexfor effecting the v 

